Agreed 100% w/ your assessment of this vs. Maker's. I've been pointing all of my Maker's drinking friends towards various Weller's whiskeys and I've been rather successful at gaining converts, granted that's as much because of the price tag than anything. Still, I'm just happy to help expand people's horizons and this is one whiskey that really helps toward that end.

Howdy Doody's past the House of Aquarius. Bring me more whiskey and rye!

I agree with Mike. A clerk at the Cork N Bottle recommended this to me after I had picked up my very first bottle of Rowan's Creek. I am fairly new to the bourbon experience, but I do know what tastes good. This could very well be the finest under $20.00 bourbon out there. If you haven't tried it, you are really missing out on a fine, flavorful bourbon.

Nighttime is bourbon time. I wish that the nighttime could last for a lifetime.

Those able to get it should buy the single barrel bottlings of this brand available currently at Cork & Bottle in Kentucky, I got mine at the Covington location. The two are from barrel no. 10 and barrel no. 11. They are just superb, rounded and fruity (black fruit like cherries or plums) despite the high proof. Apparently they are in fact 9 years old. There is no hint of earthy warehouse in them either, that "fresh loam" that some bottlings from the Buffalo Trace distillery have had.

The Buffalo Trace single barrel bottling also at this location (there is only one that I saw) is similarly good: this house knows how to pick them.

Someone I know, a bourbon neophyte, told me normally he wouldn't buy Old Weller 107 because of its low price. I had to laugh because when intip-top shape as these examples are it may be the best bourbon available today and its super low price is just an (atypical to be sure) bonus.

Maybe it's a sly form of humour at Trace, "ah we'll give 'em the best we have and just for fun charge very little for it". Whatever the explanation, it's great whiskey. It is like buying fine French Champagne for $10.00 per bottle instead of $50.00.

I agree with everybody that says this is a great value and that you can convert MM fans to Weller. As I tell people, you can buy it for a lot less and it even tastes better. And you can usually find it in most liquor stores in Georgia despite most of the stores here having pretty crummy bourbon sections. (Sigman's in conyers execpted, right Mike ?)